Sewing in Sierra Leone

Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times

Christiana John, 55, gets help from teacher Victoria Wilson at a tailoring school in Freetown, Sierra Leone, that was set up by Justice Renate Winter, the Austrian who oversees the war crimes tribunal there. She wanted to help the bush wives who have been ostracized because of the ordeals they suffered at the hands of combatants.

Christiana John, 55, gets help from teacher Victoria Wilson at a tailoring school in Freetown, Sierra Leone, that was set up by Justice Renate Winter, the Austrian who oversees the war crimes tribunal there. She wanted to help the bush wives who have been ostracized because of the ordeals they suffered at the hands of combatants.